Tidewater Review

The Northern Neck Audubon Society is offering walkers a bird’s eye view ok Hickory Hollow. The group will host a bird walk at the Hickory Hollow Natural Area Preserve in Lancaster County at 9 a.m. March 24 at 9 a.m., according to a news release from the society. Hickory Hollow offers 3.5 miles...

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The Northern Neck Audubon Society will be hosting a bird walk at the Hickory Hollow Natural Area Preserve in Lancaster County on Saturday, March 24.

The Northern Neck Audubon Society will be hosting a bird walk at the Hickory Hollow Natural Area Preserve in Lancaster County on Saturday, March 24. (Tidewater Review file photo)

Community News

Gardens and shorelines with native plants help protect the Chesapeake Bay by filtering stormwater runoff and providing erosion protection. VIMS coastal scientist, Karen Duhring, is scheduled to speak at the March 15th meeting of the John Clayton Chapter of the Virginia Native Plant Society. Karen...

The upcoming SRBA Raikes Church School Convention's Children's Home Donation Program will be held on March 25, 2018 as listed below: First Baptist Church Harmony Village Rev. Woodland Holmes, Pastor (804-758-3643) Locus Hill, VA 23092 Date & Time: March 25, 2018 4:00 p.m. We are asking all Southside...

The Rotary Club of West Point welcomed Adele Smith, chairwoman of the Garden Club of the Middle Peninsula 2018 tour, to their meeting on Feb. 22. Smith discussed plans for this year's Historic West Point Garden Week tour. A Garden Club walking tour will be from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 27 in Historic...

Sports

A baseball team close to Paisley Heath recently held a fundraiser for the sick 5-year-old from New Kent. Paisley’s 12-year-old brother, Brayden Heath, and his baseball team hosted a fundraiser Saturday to assist with the cost of her chemotherapy and recent bone marrow transplant. Paisley received...

West Point High School is accepting nominations for the next West Point High School Sports Hall of Fame. Nomination forms can be found on the school website wphs.wpschools.net and are due by Wednesday, Feb. 28. Contact Amy Saunders at asaunders@wpschools.net or 804-843-3630 with questions or concerns....

Clark Harrell’s six-year association with Bay Rivers District football has ended. Harrell, who coached three seasons (2012-14) at Smithfield High, will resign on Tuesday as New Kent’s head coach after three seasons to become the new head coach at Riverbend High in Spotsylvania County. Harrell,...

Life

Flower power and the smell of hairspray are coming to West Point High School. Drama Club will perform the hit Broadway musical “Hairspray” in the first week of March. The musical is based on “Hairspray” the film, which debuted in 1988. The film was then adapted into a Broadway musical in 2002 and...

Arts Alive presents the “3 Redneck Tenors” and the opening of an invitational art exhibit, featuring West Point Councilwoman Gail Nichols, on March 17. The 3 Redneck Tenors are a new kind of group, as they bring comedy to their music. The group has been performing for audiences since 2006. The...

The sound of laughter, dogs barking and children playing at Pine Fork Park may be just a few months away. County officials say the groundbreaking for the expansive park behind George E. Watkins Elementary School could happen as early as this spring. Plans for the park include a playground area,...

Christmas on the Town returns Sunday with a parade, house tours and more to help residents kick off holiday festivities in downtown West Point. A parade featuring the town fire department, antique cars and Santa Claus will travel from First Street to 10th Street at 1 p.m. Sunday, said Kristie Walker...

Opinion

A man known for his candor and aversion to hyperbole, Ben Bradlee, portrayed by Jason Robards, stared down his two young charges while standing in a robe and slippers on his front lawn. As only the legendary journalist could, he captured the essence of it all in a few short, direct words. “Nothing’s...

Finding skilled workers is an ongoing challenge for American businesses. Media reports tend to focus on the lack of science, tech and math skills. But more than 4 in 10 business executives complain that too many job applicants lack "soft skills" such as creativity, teamwork and communication. Indeed,...

President Trump didn’t win many friends Thursday during an Oval Office meeting on immigration, where he disparaged the countries thousands of African migrants flee from every year. His comments were crass and uncalled for, regardless of his policies on protecting our borders and removing illegal...

I am writing in hopes of reaching out to my local community. I hope that on Nov. 7 you take the time to vote in your local election. Even more, I hope that you vote for Shelia Crowley for the House of Delegates 98th District. As her website states, she is not a politician, but her resume fighting...

National News

President Donald Trump shook up his legal team Monday by hiring a combative former prosecutor who has publicly argued that Trump is the target of an elaborate FBI conspiracy - marking another confrontational move by the president against the rapidly mounting legal threats facing him and his administration....

Weinstein Co., the troubled movie company that failed in the wake of sexual harassment claims against co-founder Harvey Weinstein, filed for bankruptcy with plans to sell its entertainment assets. Under a deal the company announced in a statement Monday, Weinstein will sell itself to an affiliate...

Facebook last week suspended the Trump campaign's data consultant, Cambridge Analytica, for scraping the data of potentially millions of users without their consent. But thousands of other developers, including the makers of games such as FarmVille and the dating app Tinder, as well as political...

Anxious Texans huddled inside their homes Monday as investigators scrambled for clues at the scene of another mysterious explosion here, the fourth in a string of attacks this month that authorities say are the work of a sophisticated "serial bomber" who has been terrorizing this city with increasingly...